The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-22
SEEN BY WATTS OF CoNEJos.
B,ll Nye Meets Western Clergyman
Who Has Visited the Tombs.
EE.o,, the Natg YorL. PorId

From the Ne,o York World.
1--WE just been up spending the forenoon
of the Tombs Police Court" said Mr.. Clark
Watts, Of Conejos county, COL, yesterday.
~ had heard good deal aboutit, and so I
vent up there to hear the trials, partly, and
oaytly because had heard that friend of
nine named BONN, that I used to know in
Aihnnueruue, N. Mat least his name was
Bobm there in New Mexico-had been
iarlxed Sunday for fracturing the LIQUOR
audience with regards to selling rum on the
Sabbath at restaurant. 1t seems that you
emit give or sell beer, ale or whisky
at your hotel or restaurant to a guest to
drink with his meals on Sunday, but it is
oil right if you go anywhere else and take it
on an empty stomach. I know that's the
case, because couldn't get beer, ale or any
thing else with my dinner at first-class
restaurant, but when got out on Broadway
IN INV way down to the Coney Island boat,
there was q man standing in front of a sa-
loon facing the Battery and bowling all day
Sunday: 7Step inside, gentlemen, and get
n nice, cool glass of lager for &C. SO the
city audience with regards to liquor on Sun
day is TO discourage drinking with meals
and make people drink on an empty
stomach, so as to shorten up the time and
help poor man get drunk early. Then he
can have it off his mind"
But what's that got to do with the
Tombsp
"Well, Bohm, understand, was jerked
for trespassing on this audience with re-
gard to liquor on the Lords day, he claim
ing that if liquor was good thing for week
DAYS that Sunday was no time to economic.
So he had been selling real old New Mexi-
can cobra de caterpillar juice in conjunction
with cold beans, thus pandering to the
simple and natural demands of the West as
we'll as to the depraved and acquired tastes
of the East 1t was what we call in Cone
los county wet restaurant, where you
take drink, wipe off your whiskers with
the walters apron, eat radish and pay the
auditor two bits. You can do as you like
about wiping off your chin, and you will
not be criticised if you omit the radish, but
the success of the scheme rests on the free
interchange of coin and cobra de caterpillar
juice. Saveyp
"Yes, 1 savoy. But bite it off, if you
please. Take a tuck in it, | am going to
decay here. How about the TombsF'
"Well, Bohm was nipped Sunday for
'fringing this audience, and heard no was
let out on his own reconnaissance to be tried
at the Tombs Monday forenoon, SO l went
up there. The Tombs is a big 'dobe fort
about a mile up the trussle, on the left hand
side. | strolled in, thinking | might be
snatched up on the jury, perhaps, and
make a dollar or two, besides helping Bohm
out, for I've been on jury before. l was
juryman for three years runnin' in my own
county, and never lost case"
"Well3n
"Well, You seem to be in a laundering
hurry for man I've had my eye on to for
two weeks and hain't seen do anything yet "
'Well, what becomes of Bohmp
"BOhml Well, | sat on the back seat and
inhaled the warm, delightful old air quite a
while. waiting to be SWITCHED for the jury,
but didn't get vote. The room was full of
people, but they were not the weather.
classes 4 man that sat just ahead of me
had to hold one of his ears on with his
left hand and his breeckes with the other.
Judge he was witness Another fellow
was trying to peer into a tenderloin steak
with one eye, and had what-nOt over the
other one He was called an expert so [
was told. A very black-haired woman
from Italy or the Indian Reservation sat
across the aisle from me. She had a welt
across the intellect about the size of vi
emma sausage. 1t was made by "a pop-bottle
in the hands of her husband, was told, who
is the organists that plays The Cricket on
the Hearth with so much feeling. She had
talked with him since about the welt, how
ever, and would now swear that it was a
birth-mark."
But how about Bohmn'
well, wait minute. NObodys going to
get your seat down at the City Hall Park if
you stay here half an hour. sat there and
watched people go up and talk across the
counter to the head bookkeeper in low voice
and then go away. Then some more would
go up and apparently ask him if he needed
anybody to whitewash his fence, but |
couldn't hear what they said Sometimes a
policeman would crook his finger at man
IN the audience, and the man would come
up and he and the policeman and the
cashier and another man would smell of
small and very tired Testament, and then
converse in a low tone for awhile Then
one OF the men would step around to the
other corner of the corral, turn his pockets
wrong side out and give the contents to the
referee. Sometimes he would take his hat
ma go out, and at others he would 90 into
he elevator l called it the elevator, but it
nay have been where the Grand Lodge was
n session, for there was a little square hole
the door, and every little while some
aember of the Grand Lodge would give the
Ign of distress through this hole and try to
ONE out, but the Worthy Outside Guard
would shake his head and hold the door
nets For long time they seemed to be
citing ready and consulting and preparing
or court to open or for the Judge to come,
VI Otutl VII All az OlICC L
leard somebody say Courts adjourned |
ooKed at my watch and it was - o'clock,
md man with one wing Of his nose gnawed
III told me that they had tried seventeen
asses since I'd been there"
But as regards Bohmp
Oh, found out afterward that Bohm is
22Inly his winter name when he goes West.
here don't know what his name is this
season, but any way he wasn't at the Tombs
Police Court or I would have recognized
nm Afterward | heard that there was
another police court in town that they say
Is building up good trade. 1t is a police
court that don't advertise much through the
papers, but its motto is Live and Let Live,
ana ! m told that it is doing we'll"
lie then gave me a cigar with compound
Iacture in the middle of it, and hurried up
NE stairs of an elevated station, evidently
intending togo down town by means of an
uptown train.
BILL NYE.
HEATHEN HANDILY HUMBUGGED.